Petra Molnar, Associate Director of the CRS Refugee Law Lab, is quoted in this story in the Guardian about a report on new tech and migration by UN Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume.
A new report from the Refugee Law Laboratory and EDRi (European Digital Rights) investigates how new technologies are increasingly being used at the border and to manage migration. Technological Testing Grounds is based on over 40 conversations with refugees and people on the move and shows that much of this innovation occurs without adequate governance mechanisms and does […]
The Centre for Refugee Studies is delighted to announce that Dahabo Ibrahim is the inaugural recipient of the Anthony Richmond Scholarship. This new scholarship recognizes promising graduate student research on the intersections of forced migration and environmental changes, such as climate change, flooding, drought, forest fires, and land or sanitary degradation. The scholarship was created […]
https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/05/28/york-university-to-grant-masters-degrees-to-first-cohort-of-refugees-in-kenya/
The Borderless Higher Education (BHER) project is listed as one of the factors in York’s ranking! https://about.yorku.ca/times-higher-education-ranking/
https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/04/15/york-phd-student-examines-the-diversity-of-refugee-experiences/
Calls for change at refugee board after woman asked why husband didn’t ‘just kill’ her Global News
A Global News investigative report about Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board failing to apply its internal guidelines for vulnerable claimants. https://globalnews.ca/news/6214393/refugee-judge-asks-woman-why-husband-wouldnt-kill-her/ Several CRS affiliated researchers contributed to the story, including Sharry Aiken, who persuasively argues that the problem is not with the guidelines themselves but with oversight for individual decision-makers, and Hilary Evans Cameron whose […]
A feature story the UNHCR did on one of the BHER project’s students: https://www.unhcr.ca/news/technology-connects-somali-refugee-with-canadas-york-university/ His story is also highlighted in the third chapter of the new UNHCR education report https://www.unhcr.org/steppingup/
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, CRS Scholar and UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, reflects on the international commitment to protecting refugees https://twailr.com/cascading-toward-de-solidarity-the-unfolding-of-global-refugee-protection